Corrosive

Origin

From Old French corrosif

Full definition of corrosive

Adjective

1. Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
2. Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
• ShakespeareCare is no cure, but corrosive.
3. destroying or undermining something gradually

Related terms

• corrosively
• corrosiveness
• corrosivity
• corrode

Noun

1. That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
2. Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.